Any Magic Guidance Master present could have easily crushed it.
The only real dangers were the doll itself and the chessboard beneath their feet.
Now that the doll had walked into the trap and the chessboard could no longer operate on its own after being cut apart, the danger level immediately dropped drastically.
"Sage of Stars" Grinton Rosetti was the first to land between the doll and the students, shielding them behind him. Only then did he realize that the doll had already been subdued.
He fell silent for half a second before murmuring, as if to ease the awkwardness, "So this is the one pulling the strings? Why is it a doll?"
The Prophets regrouped within a single square several minutes later.
It was only after the doll had been captured that they realized they had spent so long contending with a mere doll.
But on further thought, only that could explain the various blunders made by the mastermind behind the scenes.
If that mastermind had been a mentally incomplete doll, then everything seemed to make sense.
Yet every prophet present was shrewd. The instant they discovered that the mastermind was a doll, everyone's gaze toward it burned with fervor!
A doll that had manipulated four Prophets and used a chessboard to trap so many of them.
A doll searching for the "Three Fates."
Even if this thing was not a god itself, it had to be a divine artifact! The doll of the Goddess of Fate!
Before the gods awakened, the artifacts they had used had awakened first. Those with consciousness, like this doll of the Goddess of Fate, constantly absorbed knowledge and learned about the current state of the world as they embarked on the road to find their masters.
The Star Tower had predicted that something